What force could contain the cosmos before the Big Bang?

I thought it was gravity that held it all together, then God blew it up.

We can't start at that point until The Big Bang Theory is no longer a theory .(what happened to the Steady State Theory?)The Big bang is still a theory(although people are leaving the" theory" part out.Is it no longer a theory?This is becoming very confusing) and will always be a theory because scientists can't prove how it came to exist.

Scientists will never understand the universe until they admit there had to be a creator to create the universe.Then they would cease to become scientists.They are trapped in their finite world with their finite minds and their finite bodies and will spend the rest of their lives coming up with more absurd explanations until they run out of all possible theories and have to start all over again .They refuse to believe in the possibility of something supernatural involved with the appearance of the universe because that would be unscientific and as you know everything has to be scientifically proved to be accepted as correct by scientists.

Edit...How can there be a "force"if the universe appeared from nothingness.(i know that nothingness is not the right word but there isn't one to describe what was before time and space) IFa force was responsible then that is when the universe started to form not after the force but during it. If the force was indeed resposible then what "force" preceded the first 'force ".

Of course this is only what i think as there is no way to prove it.You should realise this .As i keep saying it is all based on theories.It has not been proven.It is all guess work based on "probabilities " which are based on further "probabilities. "

As one is free to have a theory about that (the physics don't have an agreement about 'the-time-before-the-time'), I think that there was two huge black holes before the Big Bang.

The BHs were one of matter, and the other, antimatter.. The pre-Universe were in a contraction cycle, and the BHs were growing with all the matter and antimatter they can catch. At the end, both BH collided, annihilate, the matter+antimatter, and the gravity, all disappeared (the force you asked for), and the Big Bang exploded.

And that was a part of THE CYCLES (pulsating universe)

Some variations of the Grand Unification Theories hold that at high energies and very very short distances, all the forces (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces, etc.) are equivalent, and that moreover, their strength varies not just with the inverse square law but by other means over these distances. There is some suggestion that under these conditions the properties of the Higgs field, which interferes with the movement of charged particles, may have held things together, but I'm not sure. The bigger question is, whence did order emerge, and when?

Before the big bang there was only the void, this implies that nothing existed. Pure energy has no mass, while if is not possible to know where all the energy from the big bang came from one can imagine the vastness of the void could could cause a strain at some point.

I can give you two answers. The first answer is my own personal theory. The second answer is from something I learned from a science documentary on TV soon after I had created my own theory.

The First Answer:

1) Think of space as being divided into two sections. The first section is white space. White space is a space that has an unlimited and an infinite amount of material that goes on forever. (So with in white space, with there being an unlimited and an infinite amount of material that goes on forever that also means that the concept of time is irrelevant.) The second section is black space. Black space is a space that is infinitely empty forever and ever. Now two things could have happened. The first thing that could have happened is that a particle from white space had been introduce into black space and at that point the that one particle had exploded into the BIG BANG which had occurred around 13 to 15 billion years ago. The second thing that could have happened is that white space could have introduced a leakage into black space thus creating not only the BIG BANG (or a BIG LEAK) but also creating all of the particles in our universe that had followed immediately after the BIG BANG (or a BIG LEAK). At the point that any amount of white space enters into black space is the same point that we begin to measure the age of our universe.

(Keep in mind that since white space and black space are both infinite, it also means that there may be an infinite number of universes spread out all over the place at any given time.)

The Second Answer:

2) The second answer is that our universe is one of many universes that have come and gone and that have came and went. For example think of a black hole. A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a huge region of space becomes completely engulfed into the black hole. No matter or radiation (including light) that has entered its region can ever escape it. Now the inverse and the opposite end of a black hole is where everything is funneled out. Now when this happens it can be called a white hole. A lot of scientist now believe that the BIG BANG of our universe had been created by the process of a white hole 13 to 15 billion years ago. The funneling between a black hole and a white hole is like an umbilical cord. One theory is that there are a lot of universes, and each universe is trapped inside something like a bubble, and the bubbles are connected through an umbilical cord or through a worm hole. At the point that any amount of material from a black hole exit itself out as a white hole is the same point that we begin to measure the age of our universe.

okay.. I'm just assuming here..

what if even before the Big Bang, everything was there?

don't you think chemicals exist even then? If so, the chemicals present would eventually react with each other and when some chemicals do, they'd create an explosion, right? then, what if this explosion created an environment suitable for other chemicals to form? also, due to the explosion and the heat it may have created, everything would scatter, thus the expansion. In the event that these chemicals reacted continuously with each other isn't it possible that stars would be created [also taking in consideration the heat from the explosion]? With their gravitational pulls, the stars pull other newly formed stars toward them and, odd enough, they somehow form groups of stars we now call galaxies..

Jut something to think of..

There was no force simply because nothing existed.

The universe started from a finite potential that in fact was nothing.

This potential initiated a single space-time pulse that was the beginning of our universe.

The space-time pulse continued out ward at an accelerating pace,after one 30 billionths of a second the wave front reached the speed of light an continued until it evolved into the universe we see and experience to-day.

I believe that the universe did exist before the Big Bang, coz that's when the stars required for the big bang existed. The big bang might have created more stuff, but some stuff did exist before the big bang too. There might be some attractive force existing even then.

nothingness is obviously a tough concept to wrap your brain around...before "the bang" ,there wasn't anything...not even existence...reality was created as the universe expanded...

and actually ,nothingness is not quite accurate....nothingness implies the posibility of somethingness , which there was not....

and now my head hurts....

we cannot conceptualize that which is outside our frame(s) of reference,,,,,time,,,,,,,,matter(112 elements),light(roygbiv)the advancing time ticker,,,,,,all matter in universe packed into a "space" the size of a basketball,golf ball,a dodecahedron,it's not known which,,,,,,,,how to assign boundaries to the limitless,,,,we don't know what occurs in a black hole,,,,,,,where objects disappear to ,,,,,because at rim of black holes,say we launch a spacecraft and program it to report back with pictures of its demise,,,,,at say 10 million miles,the gravitational attraction accelerates the craft to near light speed,pulling all radio communication into the bh,,,,,,like water towards a drain opening,,,stretches the craft into spaghetti shape an instant before its swallowed up,,,,,,,"where?' it goes,,,,,,,ya can't address something that that can't be measured,tested,or examined,if you wanna speculate.its gotta occupy a framework too